On 11/23/21 11:44, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 11/22/21 23:31, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>> (Catching up ...)
> 
> Welcome back! :)
> 
>> The maths looked reasonable.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> Did you have a version of the patch for review?
> 
> No, not yet. Wanted to clear the style questions on the new code (the
> additions) at first. Next, I'll have to work those additions (the
> fallback code) into your original patch -- I'll steal the way you check
> for the necessity of the fallback etc.
> 
> (Meanwhile I've worked on RHBZ#1931821, with the realization that the
> "dosfstools" change was inexcusable, and either way, we need "parted" to
> learn dealing with the bogus partition table.)
> 
>> My only other thought is that a simple set of tests could be good.
>> However it's not worth having tests that only test if __builtin*
>> functions are correct (hopefully GCC is already testing that).  So
>> tests would have to check the fallback macros are correct, even if
>> they are not used on the current platform.
> 
> So: the fallbacks need to be available (= built) in the source code
> unconditionally, so they can be directly called by the test suite. The
> actual "falling back" to them must be separate. Is that what you mean?

... should this go into common/replacements, or common/utils? The former
seems like a better fit. On the other hand, libnbd (assuming we'll want
to port the same to libnbd) does not have common/replacements at all...

Thanks
Laszlo

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